Equality Quotes - Page 16

• Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

  Joy Harjo

  Inspirational, Life, People

  "Remember". Poem by Joy Harjo, 1981.

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• As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

  David Horowitz

  America, People, Effort

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• I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Thinking, Race

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

  Socrates

  Change, Intelligent, Ignorant

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• Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Sisterhood, Men

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• It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

  Herodotus

  Freedom Of Speech, Way, Good Things

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• . . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

  Nathaniel Altman

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Reality, House, Needs

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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  Jack Kemp

  Opportunity, Political, Mouths

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• All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

  Ashley Montagu

  Life, Education, Individuality

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• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Organization, Example, Detours

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• The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

  Herbert Croly

  Civilization, Organization, Achievement

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Choices, Decision

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• Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Democracy, Conviction, Unshakable

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• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Facts, Nonsense, Assault

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.109, Harvard University Press

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• Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

  Kathleen Parker

  Pregnancy, Men, Feminist

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• In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Kings, House, Kingdoms

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.141, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

  Gerry Adams

  Play, Justice, Roles

  Gerry Adams speech in Belfast, news.bbc.co.uk. April 6, 2005.

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• Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

  Gerry Adams

  Patience, Eye, Keys

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, Principles, United States

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• There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

  Ken Livingstone

  Law, Needs, Development

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• I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Angel, Men

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• The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

  Tarja Halonen

  Strong, Justice, Goal

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